As above. For years I held Roger responsible but now I'm older and wiser I think Dave is the guilty party. Who is responsible in your eyes gentlemen?
Who made Pink Floyd break up
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Yoko Ono.
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That woman has no right to be mentioned on a shaving forum!
Unless the topic is "which celebrity is most like shaving with a rusty beer can?"
I always felt the breakup was due to long standing differences between Waters and Gilmour. Pretty clear that when Waters left he took most of the lyrical talent with him.
Well, to me was a clash of egos.
They were one of the gratest bands ever, but they retired like just any other bar band (In my opinion). They never had, and never will have a proper good bye with their fans.
They were one of the gratest bands ever, but they retired like just any other bar band (In my opinion). They never had, and never will have a proper good bye with their fans.
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That is my grudge with the Floyd. I seen them live (minus Waters) but I just think two egos spent so much time depriving their fans it's criminal. Now Rick has gone the moment has passed.
If you ask Dave, it's "old misery guts".
When the band broke up, Waters admitted to a having a rude awakeining when he realized that the fans didn't associate his name with the mighty drawing power of Floyd, as evidenced by the poor sales of his wonderful Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking tour. Artistically, he had the last laugh with the release of Amused to Death, arguably the finest work any of them ever produced.
Gilmour probably harbored some ill feeling as having never received his due as the "savior" of the band after the sad case of Syd Barrett played out. He probably also felt that despite Waters' enormous contribution to their catalog, fans were coming to concerts to see him play guitar, at least to the extent that he shouldn't have to put up with too much of Roger's crap. As Dave lacked Roger's writing ability, his tactic was simple- just keep the band alive, and hordes of new fans will crawl out of the woodwork to see what they were missing all those years ago. Not surprisingly, their most profitable tours came after they had disbanded. It's much easier to curry favor with the fans when you give them what you want than when you spend years working on an opera.
Whenever you're dealing with huge talents and strong personalities, clashes such as these are inevitable.
When the band broke up, Waters admitted to a having a rude awakeining when he realized that the fans didn't associate his name with the mighty drawing power of Floyd, as evidenced by the poor sales of his wonderful Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking tour. Artistically, he had the last laugh with the release of Amused to Death, arguably the finest work any of them ever produced.
Gilmour probably harbored some ill feeling as having never received his due as the "savior" of the band after the sad case of Syd Barrett played out. He probably also felt that despite Waters' enormous contribution to their catalog, fans were coming to concerts to see him play guitar, at least to the extent that he shouldn't have to put up with too much of Roger's crap. As Dave lacked Roger's writing ability, his tactic was simple- just keep the band alive, and hordes of new fans will crawl out of the woodwork to see what they were missing all those years ago. Not surprisingly, their most profitable tours came after they had disbanded. It's much easier to curry favor with the fans when you give them what you want than when you spend years working on an opera.
Whenever you're dealing with huge talents and strong personalities, clashes such as these are inevitable.
Proper goodbyes are overrated. I saw the Who's proper goodbye at Shea Stadium, in 1982.
Now they're playing the Super Bowl!They were aleady shot at that point, if it makes you feel any better.
July 3, 1977- Roger Waters plays the encore at Madison Square Garden, wearing my shirt.
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Proper goodbyes are overrated. I saw the Who's proper goodbye at Shea Stadium, in 1982.
They were aleady shot at that point, if it makes you feel any better.
July 3, 1977- Roger Waters plays the encore at Madison Square Garden, wearing my shirt.
Why was he wearing your shirt? I love stories like this. They make me wish i was old.
Which one's Pink?
Me too!
They broke up because they had done all they wanted to do as a band - no one is to blame or is responsible. A band, like any other collaborative venture whether it's in science and technology or art, has a life cycle and eventually the creative energy no longer flows between its members. People get bored and burnt out and the small issues start to overshadow the larger mission. Luckily, in the case of Pink Floyd, they had all made enough cash that the break up allowed them to move on to new things unburdened by such details as needing a regular job with a paycheck.
Yeah, I want to hear the story. The closest I have is Jimmy Page asking me for a beverage and admitting that his songwriting didn't take off until he made a deal with the devil. And I made that up. Pure fiction.
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Utter Utter Bollocks! Nothing more nothing less.
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The wife's investment
Maybe it's no joke then, since it is the first thing that popped into so many of our minds.
By the mid-70s creativity among the Brit rock bands fizzled; the scene that the British Invasion created was almost over. Floyd, after Wish You Were Here took a long break; The Who were done. Zep was now mortal after Song Remains, right around the Bi-Centennial. To me, Floyd's game changed after Syd Barrett was committed. The Wall was like a new era for Floyd and the music scene was far different by then. I've seen them all live in their prime.
As for the breakup, to me it was long overdue.
As for the breakup, to me it was long overdue.
I've been checking, and came across this picture of Syd Barrett on a date with Yoko Ono
http://www.sydbarrett.it/phpix/albums/without%20pink floyd/syd_71b.jpg
And this excerpt from an interview with David Gilmour;
Gilmour and Samson have been married for 12 years, and also work together creatively - Samson is credited as having written and co-written the lyrics for six of the songs on his latest album as well as many others including "High Hopes" on Pink Floyd's last album The Division Bell in 1994. Yet, if you look the album up on Amazon, you'll find furious comments comparing Samson to Yoko Ono.
http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t9346-david-gilmour-life-rock-god.html
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